Nation-State Law

Commemorating Herzl’s vision: Reflections on his legacy and values - opinion

Theodor Herzl’s vision and values, as expressed in his writing, imagine a different Israel than we have today.

 ACTIVISTS HOLD copies of the Declaration of Independence in the Knesset gallery to protest against the Nation-State Law in 2018. Herzl’s values compel us to scrutinize the law, which undermines the equality of non-Jewish citizens, the writers maintain.
 IDF soldiers are seen at the funeral of Druze soldier Wassem Mahmoud, killed in the Israel-Hamas War.

'Maybe your land should belong to Jews': Druze lawyer ponders sector's future in Israel

A member of the Druze community holds a Druze flag as he speaks to an Israeli soldier near the border fence between Syria and the Golan Heights, near Majdal Shams June 18, 2015. Gathered at a hilltop in the Golan Heights, a group of Druze sheikhs look through binoculars at the Syrian village of Hade

Politics are not getting in the way of Druze medical officer’s IDF duty

 On a scale from 1 = not at all important to 5 = very important, rate the importance of each of the following goals for the war as 4 or 5 (Jewish sample and Arab sample; %)

Release of hostages top war goal for Israeli Jews and Arabs - poll


Voices from the Arab press: The absurdity of Qatar's rant

A roundup of this week's Arab media.

PROTESTERS ARE pushed back by Iraqi security forces during a protest at Tahrir Square in Baghdad, July 2018

Middle Israel: You’re no Ben-Gurion, Mr. Prime Minister

Basic laws demand the consensus Netanyahu refuses to seek, and the humility he does not possess

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the cabinet meeting July 29, 2018

How Druze activist Eyal Assad influenced the Jewish Nation-State Law

How a tweet by Naftali Bennett prompted Netanyahu to take the crisis with the Druze community seriously.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Druze leaders

Can the Start-Up Nation save Israel from itself?

It’s in the tech space where we can find one possible solution to the disconnect between an Israel getting better and a Knesset pushing a political agenda designed to engender the opposite.

AN ARAB woman walks past a Jewish couple at the Western Wall

Meretz petitions court against Nation-State Law

"The prime minister decided to rank the citizens of the state, with Jews as class A, the Druze as class B, and the Arabs and gays and lesbians as the bottom of the totem pole."

Meretz MKs Issawi Frej (r), party leader Tamar Zandberg, and lawyer Eran Lev at the High Court of Justice, July 31, 2018

Diaspora Jews to Israel: We need to talk

I was reminded that while Israelis and Jews in the Diaspora are one people, we aren’t the same. And maybe we’re disappointed because we’re asking the wrong questions.

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Think about it: Who's afraid of equality

Given this reality, it would be nice to have a prime minister who is willing to place the principle of equality at the top of his agenda – not just in words but also in spirit and actions.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets leaders of the Druze community: Likud MK Ayoob Kara, Sheikh Moafaq Tarif, the current spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, to discuss the controversial Nation-State Law, Brig.-Gen. Amal Asad (ret.) and former Labor MK Shakib Shanan